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4th SIENA MEETING

FROM GENOME TO PROTEOME:
KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION AND REPRESENTATION

Sept. 4-7, 2000, Siena, Italy
Auditorium Istituti Biologici, Via Laterina 8, Siena


Main lectures:

Decoding the human genome (S. Broder)
How proteins speak with one another in cell signaling (E. Fischer)
Genetics and epigenetics (J. Burn)
Modelling nature complexity (H. Atlan)

Plenary sessions:

Sample selection and preparation
Separation Sciences
Detection methods
Identification, characterization and quantitation
Automation
Imaging and data display
Modelling
Data and knowledge bases
Data analysis and interpretation
Molecular networks and functional studies

 

Parallel sessions:

Mass spectrometry and related technologies
Pharmacology and toxicology
Signaling pathways
Oncology
Prokaryotes
Eukaryotic cells and tissues
Plants
Rat and mouse

Posters



 
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 3rd
16.00 – 19.00
Registration (Main Auditorium, Via Laterina,8)
19.30
Welcome Party at San Francesco’s cloister
(sponsored by Large Scale Biology Corp.)


 

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 4th
8.00 – 9.00
Registration


 

9.00 – 9.10
WELCOME ADDRESS
Prof. P. Tosi (President of Siena University)
Prof. P. E. Valensin (Chief of Department. of Molecular Biology)


 

9.10 – 9.15
OPENING REMARKS
D.F. Hochstrasser, J.-C. Sanchez, L. Bini, V. Pallini


 

OPENING MAIN LECTURE


 

9.15 – 10.00
DECODING THE HUMAN GENOME
S. Broder(Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD, USA)


 

PLENARY SESSION

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION

A1) Sample Selection and Preparation

Chairperson: T. Rabilloud


 

10.00 – 10.20
TOWARDS A TOOLSET OF METHODS FOR COMPREHENSIVE PROTEOME ANALYSIS
G. L. Corthals, L. Tonella, S.G. Gygi, V.C. Wasinger, D.F. Hochstrasser, R. Aebersold, J.-CSanchez(Sidney, Australia; Geneva, Switzerland; Seattle, WA, USA))


 

10.20 – 10.40
ADVANCES IN SAMPLE PREPARATION FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT PROTEOMICS
B. Herbert, A. Castagna, J. Baker, P. G. Righetti, K. Williams (Sydney, Australia; Verona, Italy)


 

10.40 – 11.00
COFFEE BREAK


 

11.00 – 11.20
LASER-CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION AND PROTEOMICS-BASED APPROACHES IN CANCER RESEARCH
R.E. Banks, R Craven, P. Harnden, M. Rogers, P. Millner, D. Pappin, P.J. Selby (Leeds, London, UK)


 

A2) Separation Sciences
Chairperson: J. Klose


 

11.20 – 11.40
CHROMATOGRAPHY-BASED PROTEOMIC ANALYSES: IDENTIFICATION AND QUALITATIVE COMPARISON
S. D. Patterson(Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)


 

11.40 – 12.00
RAPID QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENTS OF PROTEOMES
R. D. Smith, L. Pasa Tolic, M. S. Lipton, P. K. Jensen, G. A. Anderson, T. D. Veenstra (Richland, WA, USA)



 

12.00 – 12.20
Polymer MICRO-Chips for FAST Protein Analysis
A. Schwarz, F. Reymond, J. S. Rossier, M. Faupel, J. van Oostrum, H. H. Girault (Lausanne, Monthey, Basel, Switzerland)



 

12.20 – 12.40
THE SINGLE CELL PROTEOME PROJECT
N. J. Dovichi, Z. Zhang, S. Krylov, E. Arriaga, S. Hu, D. Michels (Alberta, Canada)



 

12.40 - 14.30
LUNCH (sponsored by Amersham Pharmacia Biotech)



 

14.30 – 14.50
IPG-DALT: STATE OF THE ART
A. Görg, G. Boguth, A. Harder, C. Obermaier, B. Scheibe, R. Wildgruber, W. Weiss(Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany)



 

14.50 – 15.10
On the adsorption of proteins to the bare silica wall and on the chemical composition of the background electrolyte for minimizing it: a quantitative study
P.G. Righetti, B. Verzola, C. Gelfi (Verona, Milan, Italy)



 

15.10 - 15.30
CIPHERGEN’S PROTEINCHIPÒ SYSTEM: A NOVEL BENCHTOP PROTEOMICS PLATFORM FOR RAPID BIOMARKER DISCOVERY AND VALIDATION
H. A. Davies, E. A. Dalmasso, B. Rich (Palo Alto, CA, USA)



 

ORAL PARALLEL SESSIONS A
MASS SPECTROMETRY AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES I
Chairperson: J. Vandekerckhove



 

15.40 – 15.55
REACTION OF PROTEINS WITH FREE ACRYLAMIDE, N- SUBSTITUTED ACRYLAMIDES AND ACIDIC AND BASIC IMMOBILINES AT ALKALINE pH VALUES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN PROTEOME ANALYSIS
M. Hamdan, E. Bordini, P.G. Righetti (Verona, Italy)



 

15.55 – 16.10
SILICON MICROTECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH SENSITITVITY & HIGH SPEED AUTOMATED PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION
G. Marko-Varga, S. Ekström, D. Ericsson, J. Malmström, J. Nilsson, T Laurell(Lund, Sweden)



 

16.10 – 16.25
QUANTITATIVE PROTEOMICS WITHOUT 2D GELS
K. Parker, Y. Huang, T. Nadler (Framingham, MA, USA)



 

16.25 – 16.40
STRATEGIES FOR COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSES OF HUMAN PROTEOMES
D. W. Speicher, X. Zuo, K. D. Speicher, O. Kolbas, P. Hembach, L. Echan (Philadelphia, PA, USA)



 

16.40 - 17.00
COFFEE BREAK



 

MASS SPECTROMETRY AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES II
Chairperson: A. L. Burlingame



 

17.00 – 17.15
DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH DENSITY ADDRESSABLE PROTEIN ARRAY
R. W. Wagner(Lexington, MA, USA)



 

17.15 – 17.30
ADDING VALUE TO GENOMES: DIRECT PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION
IN LARGE GENOMES BY MASS SPECTROMETRY
B. Kuster, P. Mortensen, J. Andersen, A. Podtelejnikov, K. Budin, M. Mann
(Odense, Denmark)



 

17.30 – 17.45
DIRECT SOFTWARE INTERPRETATION OF DE NOVO SEQUENCE
FROM ESI-MS/MS DATA FOR NOVEL PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION
USING BLAST
R. Bordoli, J. Cottrell, E. Kapp, J. Langridge, R. Rachubinski, R. Wozniak,
J. Smith, J. Skilling (Manchester, Cambridge, UK; Edmonton, Canada)



 

17.45 – 18.00
HIGH RESOLUTION PROTEOME ANALYSIS BY FOURIER
TRANSFORM-ICR-MASS SPECTROMTRY: APPLICATIONS TO
TARGET ANTIGENS FOR AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASES FROM COMPLEX
BIOLOGICAL MIXTURES
M. Przybylski(Konstanz, Germany)



 

18.00 – 18.15
ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN DIGESTS FROM 2D GELS USING A MALDI
QIT TOF MASS SPECTROMETER
C. Sutton, K. Tanaka, J. Yan, H. Montgomery, M. Dunn (Manchester, Harefield, UK)



 

ORAL PARALLEL SESSIONS B
PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY I
Chairperson: L. Anderson



 

15.40 – 15.55
EFFECT OF ROSIGLITAZONE ON THE DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION
OF DIABETES AND OBESITY ASSOCIATED PROTEINS IN OB/OB
MICE: MOLECULAR TARGETS OF INSULIN SENSITIZATION AND
ISLET CELL DYSFUNCTION
J.-C. Sanchez, V. Rouge, G. Rosselat, M. Sennitt, D. Chiappe, M. Heller,
S. Wang, A. Pallett, D. F. Hochstrasser, M. Cawthorne
(Geneva,Switzerland; Buckingham, UK)



 

15.55 – 16.10
PROTEOMICS OF RAT SERUM: INFLAMMATION AND
ANTIINFLAMMATORY DRUGS
I. Miller, I. Eberini, P. Villa, M. Fratelli, D. Agnello, P. Ghezzi, L. Puglisi,
M. Gemeiner, C. R.Sirtori, E. Gianazza(Vienna, Austria; Milano, Italy)



 

16.10 – 16.25
CHANGES IN HEPATIC PROTEIN LEVELS FOLLOWING TREATMENT
WITH ACETAMINOPHEN OR ITS NON-TOXIC REGIOISOMER 3-
ACETAMIDOPHENOL
M. Fountoulakis, P. Berndt, U. A. Boelsterli, F. Crameri, M. Winter,
S. Albertini, L. Suter (Basel, Switzerland)



 

16.25 – 16.40
PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF JET FUEL TOXICITY
F. A. Witzmann (Columbus, IN, USA)



 

16.40 - 17.00
COFFEE BREAK



 

PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY II
Chairperson: F. Witzmann



 

17.00 – 17.15
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL
PROTEIN INDUCED IN THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
FOLLOWING GUANETHIDINE TREATMENT
R.M. Leimgruber, S.A. Aykent, N.R. Siegel, P.T. Manning (St. Louis, MO, USA)



 

17.15 – 17.30
PROTEOMICS TO DISPLAY LOVASTATIN-INDUCED PROTEIN AND
PATHWAY REGULATION IN RAT LIVER
S. Steiner, C.L. Gatlin, J.J. Lennon, A.M. McGrath, A.M. Aponte, A.J. Makusky,
M. C. Rohrs, N.L. Anderson (Rockville, MD, USA)



 

17.30 – 17.45
ARRAY-BASED PROTEOMICS AND THE CHALLENGE OF HUMAN
TISSUES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
I. Humphery-Smith(Utrecht, The Netherlands)



 

17.45 – 18.00
BIOSENSOR-BASED APPLICATIONS FOR GPCR DEORPHANING
C. Williams, T. Addona, S. Cook, M. Knoppers, D. Meyer. (Cambridge, MA, USA)



 

21.30 - 22.30
CHOIR CONCERT (Chiesa di Santo Spirito, Piazza S. Spirito)
(sponsored by Consorzio Siena Ricerche)



 

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 5th



 

NOBEL MAIN LECTURE



 

9.00 – 9.45

HOW PROTEINS SPEAK WITH ONE ANOTHER IN CELL

SIGNALING
E.Fischer(Seattle, USA)



 

PLENARY SESSION

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION

A3) Detection Methods
Chairperson: M. Dunn



 

9.45 – 10.05
2D FLUORESCENT DIFFERENCE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS
ADDRESSING THE BOTTLENECKS IN 2D BASED PROTEOMICS
APPROACHES
C. Story(UK)



 

10.05 – 10.25
DETECTION DOWN TO ONE MOLECULE
D. Twerenbold(Neuchâtel, Switzerland)



 

10.25 – 10.45
PROTEIN DETECTION BY EXPONENTIAL AMPLIFICATION
C. R. Merril(Bethesda, MD, USA)



 

10.45 – 11.05
MPD ENABLED ULTRA-SENSITIVE METHODS FOR PROTEOMICS
A. K. Drukier, P. Volkovitsky, I. R. Sagdeev, N. Sirotina, P. Berndt,
H. Langen, J. Jacob, M. Cahill, A. Nordheim, R. Gregory, G. Miklos 
(Herndon , Va., Kents, OH, USA; Basel, Switzerland; Tubingen, Germany; Sydney, Australia)



 

11.05 – 11.25
COFFEE BREAK



 

A4) Identification, Characterization and Quantitation
Chairperson: M. Wilm



 

11.25 – 11.45
QUANTITATIVE PROTEOME ANALYSIS: METHODS AND
APPLICATIONS
S. Gygi, B. Rist, T. Griffin, H. Zhao, R. Aebersold(Seattle, WA, USA)



 

11.45 – 12.05
QUANTITATION AND DE NOVO SEQUENCING OF PROTEINS FROM
1- AND 2D GELS BY ISOTOPIC N-TERMINAL LABELLING
M. Quadroni, M. Münchbach, G. Miotto, P. James(Zürich, Switzerland)



 

12.05 – 12.25
MASS SPECTROMETRY AND DATABASE INTERROGATION
STRATEGIES FOR GLOBAL PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION
A. L. Burlingame(San Francisco, CA, USA)



 

12.25 - 12.45
PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION BASED ON MALDI-POST SOURCE
DECAY MS: NOT A BAD EXPERIENCE
J. Vandekerckhove, H. Demol, M. Puype, L. Martens, R. Van Belleghem
, N. Berdenis, G. Thomas,K. Gevaert (Ghent,Brussels, Belgium)



 

12.45 - 13.05
IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEINS CONTAINING
POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS (PTMS) OR POINT
MUTATIONS BY MALDI-MS/-PSD
H. E. Meyer, K. Marcus, M. Blüggel, A. Sickmann (Bochum, Germany)



 

13.05 - 14.45
LUNCH(sponsored by Applied Biosystems)



 

A5) Automation
Chairperson: P. James



 

14.45 – 15.05
A SOLUTION FOR RAPID PROGRESS INPROTEOME PROJECTS
B. J. Walsh(Sydney, Australia)



 

15.05 - 15.25
BENEFITS OF FAST PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION FOR 3D-
PROTEOMICS
H. Langen, P. Berndt (Basel, Switzerland)



 

15.25 – 15.45
COMPREHENSIVE ONE STEP PROTEOME ANALYSIS BY THE
MOLECULAR SCANNER:QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION
W. V. Bienvenut, M. Heller, M. Müller, , S. Paesano, V. Converset, R. Gras,
P.-A. Binz, J.-C. Sanchez, R.D. Appel, D. F. Hochstrasser (Geneva, Switzerland)



 

ORAL PARALLEL SESSIONS A
SIGNALING PATHWAYS
Chairperson: R. Zwilling



 

15.50 - 16.05
FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS: FROM RECEPTOR TO SIGNAL
CASCADE TO GENE EXPRESSION
J. Godovac-Zimmermann(London, UK)



 

16.05 - 16.20
INVESTIGATING THE MODULAR NATURE OF SIGNALING
PATHWAYS
P. Hornbeck, J. Rush, H. Zhang (Beverly, Massachusetts, USA)



 

16.20 - 16.35
THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF A MINIMALIST PROTEOMIC APPROACH.
APPLICATION TO THE INSULIN TRANSDUCTION PATHWAY IN
THE 3T3-L1 ADIPOCYTE CELL LINE
A. Ducret, A. Kamassah, M. Chevallet, M. Gresser, C. Ramachandran
(Pointe-Claire–Dorval, Québec, Canada)



 

16.35 - 16.50
COFFEE BREAK



 

ONCOLOGY
Chairpersons: G. Auer, J.E. Celis



 

16.50 – 17.05
UNRAVELING TUMOR COMPLEXITY
G. Auer, A. Alaiya, U. Roblick, S. Huwendiek, A. Hagman, B. Franzén,
S. Linder (Stockholm, Sweden)



 

17.05 – 17.20
PROTEOMIC STRATEGIES IN BLADDER CANCER
J. E. Celis(Aarhus, Denmark)



 

17.20 – 17.35
MASS SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC
PROTEIN AND ITS FRAGMENTS IN ASTROCYTOMA AND
OLIGODENDROGLIOMA
T.M. Luider, P. Sillevis Smitt, M. Fountoulakis, J. M. Kros
(Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Basel, Switzerland)



 

17.35 – 17.50
STRATEGIES TO STUDY MECHANISMS OF CHEMORESISTANCE IN
CANCER CELLS IN VITRO
H. Lage, S. Kohl, J. E. Celis, D. Schadendo